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Because good research needs good data
Funded by:
© Digital Curation Centre, 2009. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5 Scotland:
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Research Data Management:What’s happening & why should you
care?Kevin Ashley
Director, DCC
CC-BY
Because good research needs good data
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Why care?
• Data is expensive – an investment• Reuse:
• More research• Teaching & Learning• Planning
• Impact – with or without publication• Accountability• Legal & regulatory requirements
Because good research needs good data
5-year programme to realise maximum value and benefit from research data
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Focus on creating capacity and capability within research institutions
National services, support, coordination from DCC
Because good research needs good data
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•Invest £24m
•Result £120m
•(Wait 5 years…)
Because good research needs good data
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Without good RDM – BAD THINGS HAPPEN
With good RDM – GOOD STUFF HAPPENS
Because good research needs good data
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Funder pressures
Researcher demand
Legal issues
Value Realisation
Because good research needs good data
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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/standards/researchdata/Pages/expectations.aspx
EPSRC expects all those institutions it funds
•to develop a roadmap that aligns … with EPSRC’s expectations by 1st May 2012;
•to be fully compliant … by 1st May 2015.
Because good research needs good data
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• Awareness of regulatory environment
• Data access statement
• Policies and processes
• Data storage
• Structured metadata descriptions
• DOIs for data
• Securely preserved for a minimum of 10 years from last use
Because good research needs good data
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•NERC
•European Commission
•Wellcome
•MRC
•ESRC
•BBSRC
•NSF
Because good research needs good data
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TOOLS & SERVICES
ON-SITE SUPPORT
ADVICE
Because good research needs good data
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Understanding Data Requirements
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Because good research needs good data
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Data management plans
Because good research needs good data
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How to cite data
What data to keep
Because good research needs good data
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Data Licensing
• Bespoke licences• Standard licences• Multiple licensing• Licence mechanisms
Because good research needs good data
Institutional Engagement
• In-depth support from team of DCC staff• Helping with:
• Re-skilling• Policy development• Costing• Use of tools• Professional liaison
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Because good research needs good data
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Because good research needs good data
What’s it to you ?• Repositories can be homes for data• They can be homes for metadata• Publications and data need to be linked• Data requires persistent, resolvable identifiers• Institutions need a data policy
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Because good research needs good data
•Institutional Policy
•…article in
•International Journal of Digital Curation www.ijdc.net
Because good research needs good data
•Institutional Policy
Because good research needs good data
•DCC Policy Summary
•http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/policy-and-legal
Because good research needs good data
Because good research needs good data
Words of caution• Data isn’t always like a publication• Don’t push it, don’t force it[1]• It doesn’t always belong to you
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•1. Heywood, O. L. “Don’t push it” Los Angeles: 20th Century (1980)
Because good research needs good data
Roles for you• Someone needs to take leadership
• Bring together library, IT, research office and academic requirements and skills
• Give guidance on appropriate data centres, journal and funder policies on data
• Educate researchers about the benefits• Help with persistent IDs
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Because good research needs good data
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•Or2012.ed.ac.uk 9-13 July 2012
Because good research needs good data
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•IDCC13
•14-16 January 2013
•Amsterdam
•Call for papers now open
JosVanZetten@flickr – CC-BY-NC-ND
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Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by one third
Because good research needs good data
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•OVER TO YOU
•http://slideshare.net/kevinashley